TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

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L e s s o n 335

I choose to see my brother’s sinlessness.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

Instead of scrutinizing Him for sins, as the ego does. Dear Elder Brother please share with Me Your eyes of Love so that I may learn to see Others as You do.

1 Forgiveness is a choice. Something We must do. It’s now or never every instant! Tell Me now: Which do You?1I never see my brother as he is, – as the very Presence of Our Father, as the very Presence of Our Mother – for that is far beyond perception – to Reality. What I see in him is merely what I wish to see because it stands for what I want to be the truth. Basically, that He is worse than I am; in other words, His ‘sins’ greater than mine. It is to this alone that I respond, however much I seem to be impelled by outside happenings. I choose to see what I would look upon, and this I see and only this. What an awful thought, that I’m responsible for heinous dreams pictured as the ‘world’! My brother’s sinlessness shows me that I would look upon my own. I could see My own as I will to see My Brother sacred. And I will see it, having chosen to behold my brother in its holy light. For what is sinlessness but purity and goodness; both qualities are holy.

2 What could restore Your memory to me except to see my brother’s sinlessness? If I see His ‘sins’, then I must see My own, for We are One. Let Me instead choose to see Him holy! His holiness reminds me that he was created one with me and like myself. In him I find my Self, and in Your Son I find the memory of You as well. How wonderful it does feel to think of Myself as holy! What a Gift I get for gifting My Brother, acknowledging His Reality – as well as My own – as the Son of God.

That’s worth an “Amen!”

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1 with thanks to Piet Hein whose Grook comes frequently to mind:
Living is a thing you do.
Now or never, which do you?

What is the Ego?

The stranger and usurper You invented to hide the Son of God, replacing Him with an imaginary idol. A miscreation that You revere and worship.

1 The ego is idolatry- – worshiping itself – the sign of limited and separated self, born in a body, doomed to suffer and to end its life in death. It’s blind to its own obvious insanity, sure its insane thoughts are normal. The idea of Life dying makes perfect sense to the ego. It is the will that sees the Will of God as enemy and takes a form in which It is denied. The Will of God is but good for all, and thus ever-present.The ego wills good only for itself and never finds it. The ego is the “proof” that strength is weak and love is fearful, life is really death, and what opposes God alone is true. Is it not obvious that the ego is insanity? Not to the insane.

2 The ego is insane. In fear it stands beyond the Everywhere, apart from All, in separation from the Infinite. Or so it believes, yet its beliefs are those of lunacy. In its insanity it thinks it has become a victor over God Himself, – with delusions of grandeur it is rife; absolutely mad – and in its terrible autonomy, it “sees” the Will of God has been destroyed. (itself the victor; always center stage; madness unbounded) It dreams of punishment and trembles at the figures in its dreams, its enemies who seek to murder it before it can ensure its safety by attacking them. Violent thoughts, often masked by a ‘smile’. Don’t trust the ego, for its hatred also includes itself.

3 The Son of God is egoless. For S/He is the true Love of God revealed. With purest Love S/He does adore Her Source and never leaves It. What can he know of madness and the death of God when he abides in Him? As Truth, S/He does abide as God’s belovèd Presence What can he know of sorrow and of suffering when he lives in eternal joy? What can he know of fear and punishment, of sin and guilt, of hatred and attack when all there is surrounding him is everlasting peace, forever conflict-free and undisturbed in deepest silence and tranquility? Son of God, wake up! Why choose You dreaming? You’re missing so much Love and happiness, clarity and peace.!

4 To know Reality is not to see the ego and its thoughts, its works, its acts, its laws and its beliefs, its dreams, its hopes, its plans for its salvation, and the cost belief in it entails. For it does take such endless conniving to split Your mind off from God, then to keep maintaining the split. In suffering, the price for faith in it is so immense that crucifixion of the Son of God is offered daily at its darkened shrine and blood must flow before the altar where its sickly followers prepare for death. Truly Divinity is far preferable to playing at being ‘human’.

5 Yet will one lily of forgiveness – remember, I have but asked You for “a little willingness” – change the darkness into light, the altar to illusions to the shrine of Life Itself. Infinite Radiance, pure happiness; gone is all sorrow, healed by Its pure joy. And peace will be restored forever to the holy minds which God created as His Son, – You and You and You and You; every blessèd, belovèd One of You, You, You. All are included! – His dwelling-place, His joy, His love, completely His, completely one with Him. As thoughts people Mind, let but Divine qualities people thought: Life, Truth, Love, Spirit.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

Workbook PART II

L e s s o n 334

Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives.

This is in no way arrogance, but pure humility and gratitude to God for showing Me a better way to be. And for Your Gifts to Us of Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

1 I will not wait another day to find the treasures which my Father offers me. It would be unappreciative of Me. Who would refuse to open Christmas gifts? And Your Gifts are so much greater than what’s found beneath the tree. Those are but temporal while all of Your Gifts are eternal. Illusions must be vain and dreams are gone, – the cheap and thoughtless ‘gifts’ of the ego – even while they are woven out of thoughts that rest on false perception. Meant to imprison, ego’s ‘gifts’ are lies. Let me not accept such meager gifts again today. They do not satisfy in any way. God’s Voice is offering the peace of God to all who hear and choose to follow Him. Why would I refuse to accept His gracious and loving gifts? This is my choice today. For I’ve changed My mind. I’m no more insane! And so I go to find the treasures God has given me. Truly, I’m not walking, I am running!

2 I seek but the eternal. For Your Son can be content with nothing less than this. Your forever Good is awaiting My acceptance of It! What then can be his solace but what You are offering to his bewildered mind and frightened heart, – gone in a heartbeat, healed by Your Gifts, loving Father-Mother – to give him certainty and bring him peace? I can already feel My mind and heart relaxing, as I’m leaning into Love. Today I would behold my brother sinless. – This is the Gift I’m giving for the Gifts I am receiving. – This Your Will for me, for thus will I behold my sinlessness. And the Gift of Freedom that comes with it. Thank You dear, belovèd Father-Mother. How joyous to feel like Your Son again. Now I comprehend: “My cup runneth over.”1

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1 From the 23rd Psalm: The Lord is my Shepherd.
The King James Version Psalm 23

1The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

What is the Ego?

The stranger and usurper You invented to hide the Son of God, replacing Him with an imaginary idol. A miscreation that You revere and worship.

1 The ego is idolatry- – worshiping itself – the sign of limited and separated self, born in a body, doomed to suffer and to end its life in death. It’s blind to its own obvious insanity, sure its insane thoughts are normal. The idea of Life dying makes perfect sense to the ego. It is the will that sees the Will of God as enemy and takes a form in which It is denied. The Will of God is but good for all, and thus ever-present.The ego wills good only for itself and never finds it. The ego is the “proof” that strength is weak and love is fearful, life is really death, and what opposes God alone is true. Is it not obvious that the ego is insanity? Not to the insane.

2 The ego is insane. In fear it stands beyond the Everywhere, apart from All, in separation from the Infinite. Or so it believes, yet its beliefs are those of lunacy. In its insanity it thinks it has become a victor over God Himself, – with delusions of grandeur it is rife; absolutely mad – and in its terrible autonomy, it “sees” the Will of God has been destroyed. (itself the victor; always center stage; madness unbounded) It dreams of punishment and trembles at the figures in its dreams, its enemies who seek to murder it before it can ensure its safety by attacking them. Violent thoughts, often masked by a ‘smile’. Don’t trust the ego, for its hatred also includes itself.

3 The Son of God is egoless. For S/He is the true Love of God revealed. With purest Love S/He does adore Her Source and never leaves It. What can he know of madness and the death of God when he abides in Him? As Truth, S/He does abide as God’s belovèd Presence What can he know of sorrow and of suffering when he lives in eternal joy? What can he know of fear and punishment, of sin and guilt, of hatred and attack when all there is surrounding him is everlasting peace, forever conflict-free and undisturbed in deepest silence and tranquility? Son of God, wake up! Why choose You dreaming? You’re missing so much Love and happiness, clarity and peace.!

4 To know Reality is not to see the ego and its thoughts, its works, its acts, its laws and its beliefs, its dreams, its hopes, its plans for its salvation, and the cost belief in it entails. For it does take such endless conniving to split Your mind off from God, then to keep maintaining the split. In suffering, the price for faith in it is so immense that crucifixion of the Son of God is offered daily at its darkened shrine and blood must flow before the altar where its sickly followers prepare for death. Truly Divinity is far preferable to playing at being ‘human’.

5 Yet will one lily of forgiveness – remember, I have but asked You for “a little willingness” – change the darkness into light, the altar to illusions to the shrine of Life Itself. Infinite Radiance, pure happiness; gone is all sorrow, healed by Its pure joy. And peace will be restored forever to the holy minds which God created as His Son, – You and You and You and You; every blessèd, belovèd One of You, You, You. All are included! – His dwelling-place, His joy, His love, completely His, completely one with Him. As thoughts people Mind, let but Divine qualities people thought: Life, Truth, Love, Spirit.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

Workbook PART II

L e s s o n 333

Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.

For to have conflict You must have resenter and resentee. If One forgives, then the game is over.

1 Conflict must be resolved. Or else it festers in the minds of all the conflicted Ones. It cannot be evaded, set aside, denied, disguised, seen somewhere else, called by another name, nor hidden by deceit of any kind if it would be escaped. It must be seen exactly as it is, where it is thought to be, in the reality which has been given it, and with the purpose that the mind accorded it. Pull out all the darkened thoughts, lurking shadows of the mind. See them as they are. Bring them to the Light: the Love You really are. For only then are its defenses lifted and the truth can shine upon it as it disappears. Love All Brothers equally is an idea to transform the world; that is, as soon as it is lived. And, for You, where can it live but as You.

2 Father, forgiveness is the light –it ends the darkness – You chose to shine away all conflict and all doubt and light the way for our return to You. Hard to remember God when plagued with grievances; yet what other time is better! No light but this can end our evil dreams. — Forgive Your Brother for what He didn’t really ever do. – No light but this can save the world. No human sense of ‘Love’ can outshine it. For this alone will never fail in anything, being Your gift to Your beloved Son. Be here for giving, and let Your first gift be Your forgiveness

What is the Ego?

The stranger and usurper You invented to hide the Son of God, replacing Him with an imaginary idol. A miscreation that You revere and worship.

1 The ego is idolatry- – worshiping itself – the sign of limited and separated self, born in a body, doomed to suffer and to end its life in death. It’s blind to its own obvious insanity, sure its insane thoughts are normal. The idea of Life dying makes perfect sense to the ego. It is the will that sees the Will of God as enemy and takes a form in which It is denied. The Will of God is but good for all, and thus ever-present.The ego wills good only for itself and never finds it. The ego is the “proof” that strength is weak and love is fearful, life is really death, and what opposes God alone is true. Is it not obvious that the ego is insanity? Not to the insane.

2 The ego is insane. In fear it stands beyond the Everywhere, apart from All, in separation from the Infinite. Or so it believes, yet its beliefs are those of lunacy. In its insanity it thinks it has become a victor over God Himself, – with delusions of grandeur it is rife; absolutely mad – and in its terrible autonomy, it “sees” the Will of God has been destroyed. (itself the victor; always center stage; madness unbounded) It dreams of punishment and trembles at the figures in its dreams, its enemies who seek to murder it before it can ensure its safety by attacking them. Violent thoughts, often masked by a ‘smile’. Don’t trust the ego, for its hatred also includes itself.

3 The Son of God is egoless. For S/He is the true Love of God revealed. With purest Love S/He does adore Her Source and never leaves It. What can he know of madness and the death of God when he abides in Him? As Truth, S/He does abide as God’s belovèd Presence What can he know of sorrow and of suffering when he lives in eternal joy? What can he know of fear and punishment, of sin and guilt, of hatred and attack when all there is surrounding him is everlasting peace, forever conflict-free and undisturbed in deepest silence and tranquility? Son of God, wake up! Why choose You dreaming? You’re missing so much Love and happiness, clarity and peace.!

4 To know Reality is not to see the ego and its thoughts, its works, its acts, its laws and its beliefs, its dreams, its hopes, its plans for its salvation, and the cost belief in it entails. For it does take such endless conniving to split Your mind off from God, then to keep maintaining the split. In suffering, the price for faith in it is so immense that crucifixion of the Son of God is offered daily at its darkened shrine and blood must flow before the altar where its sickly followers prepare for death. Truly Divinity is far preferable to playing at being ‘human’.

5 Yet will one lily of forgiveness – remember, I have but asked You for “a little willingness” – change the darkness into light, the altar to illusions to the shrine of Life Itself. Infinite Radiance, pure happiness; gone is all sorrow, healed by Its pure joy. And peace will be restored forever to the holy minds which God created as His Son, – You and You and You and You; every blessèd, belovèd One of You, You, You. All are included! – His dwelling-place, His joy, His love, completely His, completely one with Him. As thoughts people Mind, let but Divine qualities people thought: Life, Truth, Love, Spirit.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

Workbook PART II

L e s s o n 332

Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.

Fear of God’s retribution for the crime of separation. Look at how vindictive We are to each Other, and each Other is a Brother. What if, though, all sense of guilt, to which You hold Yourself and Your Brothers, were just to vanish, gone as if it never happened? Can You imagine that kind of freedom? That’s the freedom forgiveness offers You.

1 The ego makes illusions. Such is its purpose, for that’s the motive of separation. Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining them away. Illumined by Its Light, what dreams can stay? Truth never makes attack. It merely is. Good is the Nature of Reality. And Truth’s Be-ing is always wholly Good. And by its presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, – that seem oh so very captivating – awaking to the Real. Truth gently wakes You from Your interminable reverie. Wakes You to God’s ever-present Heaven. Forgiveness bids this presence enter in and take its rightful place within the mind. Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility. Why do I so harp on this forgiveness? After fear, grievance was the next to be experienced from the separation. Someone else must be responsible for how I feel! I’m not to blame! No, not I! So it must be You! – Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, – Light dismissing all its ugly shadows – offering it hope and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance. Blessèd freedom, guilt and anger lightly blown away like dust; they’ve no permanence.

2 We would not bind the world again today. All of its unrest are cries for freedom. Fear holds it prisoner. And yet Your Love has given us the means to set it free. When Love is Present, fear must disappear. For as the apostle said: Perfect Love casts out fear. Father, we would release it now. Gladly let it go for something that is very much better. For as we offer freedom, it is given us. And we would not remain as prisoners while You hold out our freedom unto us. We could not be that selfish or that foolish, binding Our Brothers, longing for still more time in the dream. We can’t, … or can We?

What is the Ego?

The stranger and usurper You invented to hide the Son of God, replacing Him with an imaginary idol. A miscreation that You revere and worship.

1 The ego is idolatry- – worshiping itself – the sign of limited and separated self, born in a body, doomed to suffer and to end its life in death. It’s blind to its own obvious insanity, sure its insane thoughts are normal. The idea of Life dying makes perfect sense to the ego. It is the will that sees the Will of God as enemy and takes a form in which It is denied. The Will of God is but good for all, and thus ever-present.The ego wills good only for itself and never finds it. The ego is the “proof” that strength is weak and love is fearful, life is really death, and what opposes God alone is true. Is it not obvious that the ego is insanity? Not to the insane.

2 The ego is insane. In fear it stands beyond the Everywhere, apart from All, in separation from the Infinite. Or so it believes, yet its beliefs are those of lunacy. In its insanity it thinks it has become a victor over God Himself, – with delusions of grandeur it is rife; absolutely mad – and in its terrible autonomy, it “sees” the Will of God has been destroyed. (itself the victor; always center stage; madness unbounded) It dreams of punishment and trembles at the figures in its dreams, its enemies who seek to murder it before it can ensure its safety by attacking them. Violent thoughts, often masked by a ‘smile’. Don’t trust the ego, for its hatred also includes itself.

3 The Son of God is egoless. For S/He is the true Love of God revealed. With purest Love S/He does adore Her Source and never leaves It. What can he know of madness and the death of God when he abides in Him? As Truth, S/He does abide as God’s belovèd Presence What can he know of sorrow and of suffering when he lives in eternal joy? What can he know of fear and punishment, of sin and guilt, of hatred and attack when all there is surrounding him is everlasting peace, forever conflict-free and undisturbed in deepest silence and tranquility? Son of God, wake up! Why choose You dreaming? You’re missing so much Love and happiness, clarity and peace.!

4 To know Reality is not to see the ego and its thoughts, its works, its acts, its laws and its beliefs, its dreams, its hopes, its plans for its salvation, and the cost belief in it entails. For it does take such endless conniving to split Your mind off from God, then to keep maintaining the split. In suffering, the price for faith in it is so immense that crucifixion of the Son of God is offered daily at its darkened shrine and blood must flow before the altar where its sickly followers prepare for death. Truly Divinity is far preferable to playing at being ‘human’.

5 Yet will one lily of forgiveness – remember, I have but asked You for “a little willingness” – change the darkness into light, the altar to illusions to the shrine of Life Itself. Infinite Radiance, pure happiness; gone is all sorrow, healed by Its pure joy. And peace will be restored forever to the holy minds which God created as His Son, – You and You and You and You; every blessèd, belovèd One of You, You, You. All are included! – His dwelling-place, His joy, His love, completely His, completely one with Him. As thoughts people Mind, let but Divine qualities people thought: Life, Truth, Love, Spirit.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

Workbook PART II

L e s s o n 331

There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.

How relaxing are these words. Feel all tension drain away with letting go of will derived from ego.

What have I been doing for so long, time out of mind it’s been? I’d forgotten that all Reality but moves in harmony with You, not Me! A long and pointless lapse of memory!

1 How foolish, Father, to believe Your Son could cause himself to suffer! That Could We do something real against Your Will. Could he make a plan for his damnation and be left without a certain way to his release? How did We forget that Your Name is Love? As is Your Nature. You love me, Father. Just as You dearly Love all My Others. We’re all the apple of Your loving Eye.* You could never leave me desolate, to die within a world of pain and cruelty. This is but a most convincing nightmare, not reality.It’s not real since Love is – can only be – the only power. How could I think that Love has left Itself? There is no will except the Will of Love. Fear is a dream – False Evidence Appears Real, and isn’t! – and has no will that can conflict with Yours. For power to be power, it must be Omnipotence. Conflict is sleep, and peace awakening. If it isn’t Good, it’s not Real, no matter how convincing it appears to be. Death is illusion; life, Eternal Truth. There is no opposition to Your Will. There is no conflict, for my will is Yours. This is what is meant by sweet surrender: yielding back into Your Reality.

2 Forgiveness shows us that God’s Will is one – and that One is Good! – and that we share it. For that perfect One is His Holy Son. Let us look upon the holy sights forgiveness shows today – through the Eyes of God – that we may find the peace of God. Amen.

Once again, We are at peace forever.

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* The phrase “the apple of His eye” refers to the little image/reflection of another at whom You’re looking, which can be seen on the eyeball. A little upside-down image. It denotes extreme closeness.

What is the Ego?

The stranger and usurper You invented to hide the Son of God, replacing Him with an imaginary idol. A miscreation that You revere and worship.

1 The ego is idolatry- – worshiping itself – the sign of limited and separated self, born in a body, doomed to suffer and to end its life in death. It’s blind to its own obvious insanity, sure its insane thoughts are normal. The idea of Life dying makes perfect sense to the ego. It is the will that sees the Will of God as enemy and takes a form in which It is denied. The Will of God is but good for all, and thus ever-present.The ego wills good only for itself and never finds it. The ego is the “proof” that strength is weak and love is fearful, life is really death, and what opposes God alone is true. Is it not obvious that the ego is insanity? Not to the insane.

2 The ego is insane. In fear it stands beyond the Everywhere, apart from All, in separation from the Infinite. Or so it believes, yet its beliefs are those of lunacy. In its insanity it thinks it has become a victor over God Himself, – with delusions of grandeur it is rife; absolutely mad – and in its terrible autonomy, it “sees” the Will of God has been destroyed. (itself the victor; always center stage; madness unbounded) It dreams of punishment and trembles at the figures in its dreams, its enemies who seek to murder it before it can ensure its safety by attacking them. Violent thoughts, often masked by a ‘smile’. Don’t trust the ego, for its hatred also includes itself.

3 The Son of God is egoless. For S/He is the true Love of God revealed. With purest Love S/He does adore Her Source and never leaves It. What can he know of madness and the death of God when he abides in Him? As Truth, S/He does abide as God’s belovèd Presence What can he know of sorrow and of suffering when he lives in eternal joy? What can he know of fear and punishment, of sin and guilt, of hatred and attack when all there is surrounding him is everlasting peace, forever conflict-free and undisturbed in deepest silence and tranquility? Son of God, wake up! Why choose You dreaming? You’re missing so much Love and happiness, clarity and peace.!

4 To know Reality is not to see the ego and its thoughts, its works, its acts, its laws and its beliefs, its dreams, its hopes, its plans for its salvation, and the cost belief in it entails. For it does take such endless conniving to split Your mind off from God, then to keep maintaining the split. In suffering, the price for faith in it is so immense that crucifixion of the Son of God is offered daily at its darkened shrine and blood must flow before the altar where its sickly followers prepare for death. Truly Divinity is far preferable to playing at being ‘human’.

5 Yet will one lily of forgiveness – remember, I have but asked You for “a little willingness” – change the darkness into light, the altar to illusions to the shrine of Life Itself. Infinite Radiance, pure happiness; gone is all sorrow, healed by Its pure joy. And peace will be restored forever to the holy minds which God created as His Son, – You and You and You and You; every blessèd, belovèd One of You, You, You. All are included! – His dwelling-place, His joy, His love, completely His, completely one with Him. As thoughts people Mind, let but Divine qualities people thought: Life, Truth, Love, Spirit.

Guidance from Elder Brotheras Received and Transcribed by Sun~Rose**~*~*~*~*~*~*~

LESSONS THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE
Through THREE HUNDRED FORTY

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

Workbook PART II

What Is the Ego?

The stranger and usurper You invented to hide the Son of God, replacing Him with an imaginary idol. A miscreation that You revere and worship.

1 The ego is idolatry- – worshiping itself – the sign of limited and separated self, born in a body, doomed to suffer and to end its life in death. It’s blind to its own obvious insanity, sure its insane thoughts are normal. The idea of Life dying malkes perfect sense to the ego. It is the will that sees the Will of God as enemy and takes a form in which It is denied. The Will of God is but good for all, and thus everpresent.The ego wills good only for itself and never finds it. The ego is the “proof” that strength is weak and love is fearful, life is really death, and what opposes God alone is true. Is it not obvious that the ego is insanity? Not to the insane.

2 The ego is insane. In fear it stands beyond the Everywhere, apart from All, in separation from the Infinite. Or so it believes, yet its beliefs are those of lunacy. In its insanity it thinks it has become a victor over God Himself, – with delusions of grandeur it is rife; absolutely mad – and in its terrible autonomy, it “sees” the Will of God has been destroyed. (itself the victor; always center stage; madness unbounded) It dreams of punishment and trembles at the figures in its dreams, its enemies who seek to murder it before it can ensure its safety by attacking them. Violent thoughts, often masked by a ‘smile’. Don’t trust the ego, for its hatred also includes itself.

3 The Son of God is egoless. For S/He is the true Love of God revealed. With purest Love S/He does adore Her Source and never leaves It. What can he know of madness and the death of God when he abides in Him? As Truth, S/He does abide as God’s belovèd Presence What can he know of sorrow and of suffering when he lives in eternal joy? What can he know of fear and punishment, of sin and guilt, of hatred and attack when all there is surrounding him is everlasting peace, forever conflict-free and undisturbed in deepest silence and tranquility? . Son of God, wake up! Why choose You dreaming? You’re missing so much Love and happiness, clarity and peace.!

4 To know Reality is not to see the ego and its thoughts, its works, its acts, its laws and its beliefs, its dreams, its hopes, its plans for its salvation, and the cost belief in it entails. For it does take such endless conniving to split Your mind off from God, then to keep maintaining the split. In suffering, the price for faith in it is so immense that crucifixion of the Son of God is offered daily at its darkened shrine and blood must flow before the altar where its sickly followers prepare for death. Truly Divinity is far preferable to playing at being ‘human’.

5 Yet will one lily of forgiveness – remember, I have but asked You for “a little willingness” – change the darkness into light, the altar to illusions to the shrine of Life Itself. Infinite Radiance, pure happiness; gone is all sorrow, healed by Its pure joy. And peace will be restored forever to the holy minds which God created as His Son, – You and You and You and You; every blessèd, belovèd One of You, You, You. All are included! – His dwelling-place, His joy, His love, completely His, completely one with Him. As thoughts people Mind, let but Divine qualities people thought: Life, Truth, Love, Spirit.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

Workbook PART II

L e s s o n 330

I will not hurt myself again today.

Despite the temptation to frustration. I can just bless and then let it go, for peace is far superior to upset! Each upset is but an opportunity to choose again; to see My Brother as the holy Christ, despite My story. This choice for Love can bring Me only joy.

1 Let us this day accept forgiveness as our only function. Let’s quit the job of judgment. It’s fruitless. Why should we attack our minds and give them images of pain? Awful pictures of Our ‘sinful’ Brothers. After all, it is Our right to be in charge of Our own minds. Why should we teach them they are powerless – when Real Mind, Your Mind that’s God, is actually omnipotent (Make sure not to confuse Mind with ego.) – when God holds out His power and His Love and bids them – all of Your Real Minds – take what is already theirs? The willing mind can receive all blessings; joy overflowing. The mind that is made willing to accept God’s gifts has been restored to Spirit – knowing it is not a body, but Consciousness, forever Be-ing but Itself– and extends its freedom and its joy, as is the Will of God united with its own. For the Will of God is Consciousness, and Consciousness the Will of God, for the Universe is mental. ‘Physicality’ is only dreaming. The Self which God created cannot sin and therefore cannot suffer. It cannot sin for it is pure Love and simply seeks to bless. Let us choose today that He be our identity and thus escape forever from all things the dream of fear appears to offer us. For its seeming ‘thrills’ quickly turn to pain. Yet do We believe that We are trapped by ego forever. For We think God would never take Us back, Our crime so heinous. This just is not true for He longs for You!

2 Father, Your Son cannot be hurt. Reality is completely pain-free! And if we think we suffer, we but fail to know our one Identity we share with You. This failure is deliberate, and so it can be reversed. We would return to It today, to be made free forever from all our mistakes and to be saved from what we thought we were. Our Holy and Divine Identity has been by God kept safe for You and Me – whoever We may be – eternally. … That is Love indeed.

What is Creation?

To understand Creation We must first look to Its Source: the Creator. In the Bible We do find, right at the beginning, two reasonable translations of the first four English words. The commonly accepted one is: “In the beginning, God” and the alternate translation: “As the Source, God”. One speaks of time, the other of Eternity. Which one shall it be?

Let Us continue.

1 Creation is the sum of all God’s Thoughts, in number infinite and everywhere without all limit. For God is clearly Consciousness Itself, as is Creation. Make sure You do not confuse Creation with procreation. Only Love creates and only like Itself. And Love is not found in bodies, but as Mind. There was no time when all that It created was not there. For what You think was created – if Real – always is and thus forever will be. Nor will there be a time when anything that It created suffers any change. God’s Ideas – of which You are a precious, holy One –are imperishable. Forever and forever are God’s Thoughts exactly as they were – as He is Be-ing – and as they are, unchanged through time and after time is done. This is true of You; and it’s true right now, despite the seeming!

2 God’s Thoughts are given all the power that Their own Creator has. This is more clearly understood when You see that Creation is Revelation, no beginning and no end, but rather: always ever is, whether seen or not. For He would add to Love by its extension. Thus His Son shares in creation, and must therefore share in power to create. By seeing Love and allowing what He knows to be revealed. What God has willed – His Reality – be forever one will still be one when time is over and will not be changed throughout the course of time, remaining as it was before the thought of time began. What You call “time” is but ego overlaying What is Real. It cannot change It.

3 Creation is the opposite of all illusions, for Creation is the truth. God’s Truth revealed as All there really is. Creation is the holy Son of God, – the Son is God’s extension of His Self – for in Creation is His Will complete in every aspect, making every part container of the whole. In other words, the Ray cannot defy the Sun by choosing to become darkness. Light it is. Light it remains, even if it’s self-deluded. Its oneness is forever guaranteed inviolate, forever held within His holy Will beyond all possibility of harm, of separation, imperfection, and of any spot upon its sinlessness. We are so cherished. We are Creation-we the Sons of God. Each the One of God.

4 We seem to be discrete and unaware of our eternal unity with Him, and with each Other.Yet back of all our doubts, past all our fears, there still is certainty. God is permanent. For Love remains with all Its Thoughts, Its sureness being theirs. This is why getting Love is the Dreamer’s beggest obsession. God’s memory is in our holy minds, which know their oneness and their unity with their Creator. Even as We pretend differently! How foolish the dream. Let our function be only to let this memory return, only to let God’s Will be done on earth, only to be restored to sanity, and to be but as God created us. All We need do is give up Our insistence upon control and let the Holy Spirit guide Us now; now and forever.

5 Our Father calls to us. We can hear Him when We choose to listen! He is speaking now. We hear His Voice, and we forgive creation – Ourmis-creation – in the name of its Creator, Holiness Itself, Whose holiness His own creation shares; Whose holiness is still a part of us. Since He is Holy, so must We be too, for there really is no separation. We remain forever One with Our God.